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Hey Bon!

Greetings, utee (and others).

Gigem, I think you're right...that was a hell of a long time ago. I met Shiner around 2005 or so. Seems like it was before the Iowa State game where Todd Blythe had eleventy billion yards receiving and I think 4 touchdowns...that was the season I was officially done with the man I called Francovic. We have two of our former coaches battling cancer right now...oof.

Anyway, good to see some of the old crew still hanging in there. I can actually see retiring from teaching on the horizon...hit my number in 2024. I had just finished my first year when I found CNNSI in 1998...it was still kind of the Internet Wild West back then.

Good to hear from you again Bonfired. You’re the only person from this board I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. 

Glad to hear the end is in site for your teaching career. 

Good to hear from you again Bonfired. You’re the only person from this board I’ve had the pleasure of meeting.

Glad to hear the end is in site for your teaching career.

Me, too. It's sort of like when athletes know their time is up and it's time to hand the baton off to the younger generation...I am basically there, just have to get to "rule of 80" to give myself the option of, well, pursuing other options. Sitting at 76 now.

I won't bore folks with tales of the 2020-21 school year, but to say it sucked would be a colossal understatement.

Fearless, no worries. I've got my 2001 F250 still going, even though it's been stolen twice since 2018. Idgits who took it for a joyride in 2018 put regular gas in the diesel engine...$8000 to repair it. I was shocked that it wasn't totaled by the insurance folks.

Trying to remember the message board folks that I've met through the years....Gigem, Shiner, #11, Sarita, KSBearsFan, Dustin, a handful of the Huskers (Fearless and his brother, Entropy, Chuck Green, Vine St. Bomber), Burnt Eyes and the late, great Hookster.


Don't have a great feeling about today's game against the not-so-wee Piggies. They've given us grief even when they weren't very good, and they appear to be a semi-competent bunch this year.

It's a nice morning, so off for a walk. One smart thing I did for myself during the Covid unpleasantness was lose some weight. Figured a healthier body was as good a way as any to try to reduce any ill effects if I did catch the 'Rona.

I'm Facebook friends with mr. b and #11.  They moved to Paris for a while and did the expat thing.  I think they're back now, though.  Neither has posted in a long time.

Dustin ran his own version of Wingy's site for a while but finally decided to kill it.  I saw him and his dad at my tailgate party pretty regularly, but when I gave up the tailgate... four years ago maybe... I haven't seen or heard from him since.

I stay in touch with Burny, he's living the doomsday prepper life on acreage in the foothills of Tennessee these days, seems quite happy not to interact with humans much at all anymore. Can't say I blame him.

Glad not to do a push-up for each point the Dawgs put up, Vandy is awful.

Glad not to do a push-up for each point the Dawgs put up, Vandy is awful.

Yeah, when your point total (62) nearly exceeds your opponent's yardage (77), you've dominated.

from ESPN.................

So how hostile can Texas and Oklahoma expect it to get?

At that media day in 1990, emotions ran so high that Baylor coach Grant Teaff compared the Hogs' move to that week's invasion of Kuwait.

"I'm now thoroughly convinced that the Southeastern Conference is the Iraq of the college football scene in America," Teaff said.

Then-Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum said that teams would be geared up to "get their last licks on Arkansas," adding, "The fans will probably be more emotionally involved than the players."

The players, for their part, were more insulated from it. They were already accustomed to fans taunting them. But the 1990 and 1991 seasons added a new wrinkle on the field.

"Players would hit you and say, 'Take that to the SEC with you,'" said Quinn Grovey, Crowe's quarterback in 1990. "There was a lot of trash talk."



https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32291339/the-history-college-football-conference-lame-ducks-means-texas-oklahoma

While both Texas and OU are favored this weekend, Crowe preached caution.

"You've drawn a line with every other state [in the Big 12] that you're about to throw 'em out," he said. "You can be their undoing. You're taking some of their pride with you, because it won't be the same. Those other teams know it's never gonna be any better than it was.

"Good luck, Texas and Oklahoma."